Monday, 10 October 2016

Max Richards shares: 8, Harold Bloom

From
a cache of cuttings about Harold Bloom, mainly on his book ‘The Western Canon’
(1994) fell a handwritten letter, unsigned and unsent. For some reason Max
Richards (1937-2016) starts the letter, then leaves it alone. Maybe it’s a
draft for something else. The letter eloquently reveals the sorts of shifts
happening in Melbourne literary studies, Melbourne by then just typical of more
widespread changes in attitude and practice.